1. Agents 1997: Marina del Rey, CA, USA

Paper Session 1: Synthetic Agents

• Barbara Hayes-Roth, Robert van Gent: Story-Making with Improvisational Puppets. 1-7
• Abdel-Illah Mouaddib: Progressive Negotiation For Time-Constrained Autonomous Agents. 8-15
• James C. Lester, Brian A. Stone: Increasing Believability in Animated Pedagogical Agents. 16-21
• Stephen Grand, Dave Cliff, Anil Malhotra: Creatures: Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home Entertainment. 22-29

Paper Session 2: Knowledge Acquisition and Accumulation

• Jeff Rickel, W. Lewis Johnson: Integrating Pedagogical Capabilities in a Virtual Environment Agents. 30-38
• Robert B. Doorenbos, Oren Etzioni, Daniel S. Weld: A Scalable Comparison-Shopping Agent for the World-Wide Web. 39-48
• Mihai Barbuceanu, Mark S. Fox: Integrating Communicative Action, Conversations and Decision Theory to Coordinate Agents. 49-58
• Sean Luke, Lee Spector, David Rager, James A. Hendler: Ontology-based Web Agents. 59-66

Paper Session 3: Action Selection and Planning I

• Yiming Ye, John K. Tsotsos: Knowledge Difference and its Influence on a Search Agent. 67-74
• Takaaki Hasegawa, Yukiko I. Nakano, Tsuneaki Kato: A Collaborative Dialogue Model Based on Interaction between Reactivity and Deliberation. 75-82
• Masakatsu Ohta, Toshiyuki Iida: Strategy Diffusion in Autonomous Agent Systems: Detecting Key Agents for Wide Range Consensus. 83-87
• Charles Earl, R. James Firby: Combined Execution and Monitoring for Control of Autonomous Agents. 88-95

Paper Session 4: Models of Personality

• Marilyn A. Walker, Janet E. Cahn, Steve Whittaker: Improvising Linguistic Style: Social and Affective Bases for Agents. 96-105
• A. Bryan Loyall, Joseph Bates: Personality-Rich Believable Agents Thta Use Language. 106-113
• W. Scott Neal Reilly: A Methodology for Building Believable Social Agents. 114-121
• Leonard N. Foner: Entertainming Agents: A Social Case Study. 122-129

Paper Session 5: Sensing and Perception

• Ian Horswill: Real-Time Control of Attention and Behavior in a Logical Framework. 130-137
• Matthias O. Franz, Bernhard Schölkopf, Philip Georg, Hanspeter A. Mallot, Heinrich H. Bülthoff: Learning View Graphs for Robot Navigation. 138-147
• Dolores Cañamero: Modeling Motivations and Emotions as a Basis for Intelligent Behavior. 148-155
• Erika Rogers, Robin R. Murphy, Barb Ericson: Agent-Based Expert Assistance for Visual Problem Solving. 156-163

Paper Session 6: Modeling the Environment

• Ramon López de Mántaras, Josep Amat, Francesc Esteva, M. Lopez, Carles Sierra: Generation of Unknown Environment Maps by Cooperative Low-Cost Robots. 164-169
• Paul R. Cohen, Marc S. Atkin, Tim Oates, Carole R. Beal: Neo: Learning Conceptual Knowledge by Sensorimotor Interaction with an Environment. 170-177
• Lijia Zhou, Stan Franklin: Modeling an Environment: Agents in Character Feature Extraction. 178-184
• David Franklin, R. James Firby: Integrating Range and Object Data for Robot Navigation. 185-192

Paper Session 7: Learning

• Maria C. Neves, Eugenio Oliveira: A Control Architecture for an Autonomous Mobile Agent. 193-200
• Chris Clack, Jonny Farringdon, Peter Lidwell, Tina Yu: Autonomous Document Classification for Business. 201-208
• Ruud Schoonderwoerd, Owen Holland, Janet Bruten: Ant-Like Agents for Load Balancing in Telecommunications Networks. 209-216
• Pat Langley: Learning to Sense Selectively in Physical Domains. 217-226

Paper Session 8: Action Selection and Planning II

• Daniela Rus, Robert S. Gray, David Kotz: Transportable Information Agents. 228-236
• Mohamed Salah Hamdi, Karl Kaiser: Adaptable Local Level Arbitration of Behaviors. 237-244
• Reid G. Simmons, Richard Goodwin, Karen Zita Haigh, Sven Koenig, Joseph O'Sullivan: A Layered Architecture for Office Delivery Robots. 245-252
• Barney Pell, Douglas E. Bernard, Steve A. Chien, Erann Gat, Nicola Muscettola, P. Pandurang Nayak, Michael D. Wagner, Brian C. Williams: An Autnomous Spacecarft Agent Prototype. 253-261

Paper Session 9: Expert Assistant Architecture

• Brahim Chaib-draa: Connection Between Micro and Macro Aspects of Agent Modeling. 262-267
• Michael Schroeder, Gerd Wagner: Distributed Diagnosis by Vivid Agents. 268-275
• Subrata Kumar Das, John Fox, D. Elsdon, Peter Hammond: Decision Making and Plan Management by Autonomous Agents: Theory, Implementation and Applications. 276-283

Paper Session 10: User Modeling

• Charles Rich, Candace L. Sidner: COLLAGEN: When Agents Collaborate with People. 284-291
• Jidé B. Odubiyi, David J. Kocur, Stuart M. Weinstein, Nagi Wakim, Sadanand Srivastava, Chris Gokey, JoAnna Graham: SAIRE - A Scalable Agent-Based Information Retrieval Engine. 292-299
• Leonard N. Foner: Yenta: A Multi-Agent, Referral-Based Matchmaking System. 301-307
• Thomas Haynes, Sandip Sen, Neeraj Arora, Rajani Nadella: An Automated Meeting Scheduling System That Utilizes User Preferences. 308-315

Paper Session 11: Multi-Atent Imteraction

• Peter Wavish, David Connah: Virtual Actors That Can Perform Scripts and Improvise Roles. 317-322
• Anthony Chavez, Alexandros Moukas, Pattie Maes: Challenger: A Multi-agent System for Distributed Resource Allocation. 323-331
• Marcus J. Huber, Tedd Hadley: Multiple Roles, Multiple Teams, Dynamic Environments: Autonomous Netrek Agents. 332-339
• Hiroaki Kitano, Minoru Asada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Itsuki Noda, Eiichi Osawa: RoboCup: The Robot World Cup Initiative. 340-347

Paper Session 12: Action Selection and Planning III

• Edmund H. Durfee, Patrick G. Kenny, Karl C. Kluge: Integrated Premission Planning and Execution for Unmanned Ground Vehicles. 348-354
• Robert St. Amant, Paul R. Cohen: Evaluation of a Semi-Autonomous Assistent for Exploratory Data Analysis. 355-362
• Karen Zita Haigh, Manuela M. Veloso: High-Level Planning and Low-Level Execution: Towards a Complete Robotic Agent. 363-370
• Jiming Liu, Hong Qin, Yuan Yan Tang, Y. T. Wu: Adaptation and Learning in Animated Creatures. 371-377

Paper Session 13: World Wide Web Agents

• Marko Balabanovic: An Adaptive Web Page Recommendation Service. 378-385
• Juan M. Corchado, Brian Lees, N. Rees: A Multi-agent System "Test Bed" For Evaluating Autonomous Agents. 386-393
• Alexandros Moukas, Giorgos Zacharia: Evolving a Mult-agent Information Filtering Solution in Amalthaea. 394-403
• Keith Decker, Anandeep Pannu, Katia P. Sycara, Mike Williamson: Designing Behaviors for Information Agents. 404-412

Paper Session 14: Autonomous Robots

• David P. Barnes, Robert A. Ghanea-Hercock, Ruth Aylett, Alexandra M. Coddington: Many Hands Make Light Work? An Investigation into Behaviourally Controlled Co-operant Autonomous Mobile Robots. 413-420
• Domingo Guinea, Felicidad Recio, J. Vincente: Framing Autonomy: A Visual Tracking Architecture. 421-428
• Maria C. García-Alegre, Felicidad Recio: Basic Agents for Visual/Motor Coordination of a Mobile Robot. 429-434
• Masahiro Fujita, Koji Kageyama: An Open Architecture for Robot Entertainment. 435-442

Paper Session 15: People-Agent Interaction

• Edmund H. Durfee, Marcus J. Huber, Michael Kurnow, Jaeho Lee: TAIPE: Tactical Assistants for Interaction Planning and Execution. 443-450
• Clark Elliott: I Picked Up Catapia and Other Stories: A Multimodal Apporach to Expressivity for "Emotionally Intelligent" Agents. 451-457
• Silvia Miksch, Kenneth Cheng, Barbara Hayes-Roth: An Intelligent Assistant for Patient Health Care. 458-465
• Batya Friedman, Helen Nissenbaum: Software Agents and User Autonomy. 466-469

Invited Talks

• Yasuo Kuniyoshi: Fusing Autonomy and Sociability in Robots. 470-471
• Daniel S. Weld: Software Agents that Reason about Information Contents & Quality. 472-473

Video Session

• Simone Strippgen: INSIGHT: A Virtual Laboratory for Looking into Behavior-Based Autonomous Agents. 474-475
• Luc Emering, Ronan Boulic, Selim Balcisoy, Daniel Thalmann: Real-Time Interactions with Virtual Agents Driven by Human Action Identification. 476-477

Poster Session

• Stéphane Zrehen: A Neural Architecture for Motivated Navigation Behavior in an Animat. 478-479
• Bradley J. Rhodes: PHISH Nets: Planning Heuristically In Situated Hybrid Networks. 480-481
• H. Van Dyke Parunak, Albert D. Baker, Steven J. Clark: The AARIA Agent Architecture: An Example of Requirements-Driven Agent-Based System Design. 482-483
• Andrei Popescu-Belis: An Adaptive Multi-Agent System Based on "Neural Darwinism". 484-485
• Yves Lespérance, Hector J. Levesque, Shane J. Ruman: An Experiment in Using Golog to Build a Personal Banking Assistant (Extended Abstract). 486-487
• Michel Occello, Yves Demazeau: CELLO: An Agent Model with Real Time Constraints. 488-489
• Paul Davidsson: Linearly Anticipatory Autonomous Agents. 490-491
• Glenn S. Wasson, Gabriel J. Ferrer, Worthy N. Martin: Hide-and-Seek: Effective Use of Memory in Perception/Action Systems. 492-493
• Ramon Mas, Ronan Boulic, Daniel Thalmann: Extended Grasping Behavior for Autonomous Human Agents. 494-495
• Rob Barrett, Paul P. Maglio, Daniel C. Kellem: WBI: A Confederation of Agents that Personalize the Web. 496-499
• Ralph Rönnquist, Chi Keen Low: Analysing Expert Assistants through Interaction Diagrams. 500-501
• Stefan Conrad, Can Türker, Gunter Saake: Towards Agent-Oriented Specification of Information Systems. 502-503
• Luc Emering, Ronan Boulic, Selim Balcisoy, Daniel Thalmann: Multi-Level Modeling and Recognition of Human Actions Involving Full Body Motion. 504-505
• Jorge E. Sagula, Martin F. Puricelli, Gustavo J. Bobeff, Gastón M. Martin, Carlos E. Pis Diez: GALOIS: An Expert-Assistant Model. 506-507
• Patrick Doyle, Barbara Hayes-Roth: An Intelligent Guide for Virtual Environments. 508-509
• Analía Amandi, Ana Price: Towards Object-Oriented Agent Programming: The Brainstorm Meta-Level Architecture. 510-511
• Kirstie L. Bellman, Christopher Landauer: A Note on Improving the Capabilities of Software Agents. 512-513
• Ruth Aylett, Alexandra M. Coddington, David P. Barnes, Robert A. Ghanea-Hercock: Supervising Multiple Cooperating Mobile Robots. 514-515
• Ipke Wachsmuth, Britta Lenzmann, Tanja Jörding, Bernhard Jung, Marc Erich Latoschik, Martin Fröhlich: A Virtual Interface Agent and its Agency. 516-517
• Juan D. Velásquez, Pattie Maes: Cathexis: A Computational Model of Emotions. 518-519
• Fernando J. Corbacho, Michael A. Arbib: Schema-Based Learning: Towards a Theory of Organization for Biologically-inspired Autonomous Agents. 520-521
• Patricia Charlton, Yan Chen, E. H. Mamdani, Olle Olsson, Jeremy V. Pitt, Fergal Somers, Annika Waern: An Open Agent Architecture for Integrating Multimedia Services. 522-523
• Amedeo Cesta, Daniela D'Aloisi, Rodolfo Brancaleoni: Mixed-Initiative Agenda Management with Software Agents. 524-525
• John L. Pollock: Taking Perception Seriously. 526-527
• D. Jenkins, D. Livingstone, D. Maclean, A. Reglinski: Supporting Safety-Related Projects with a Designer's Assistant. 528-529
• Manuela M. Veloso, Peter Stone, Sorin Achim: A Layered Approach for an Autonomous Robotic Soccer System. 530-531
• Yuji Takada, Takao Mohri, Hiroki Iciki, Masatoshi Shiouchi, Yuji Wada, Francis G. McCabe: A Multi-Agent Model for Schedule Navigation with Location Information. 532-533
• Aaron Sloman: Synthetic Minds. 534-535
• Kristinn R. Thórisson: Gandalf: An Embodied Humanoid Capable of Real-Time Multimodal Dialogue with People. 536-537
• Bruce Blumberg: Go with the Flow: Synthetic Vision for Autonomous Animated Creatures. 538-539
• Benedita Malheiro, Eugenio Oliveira: Environmental Decision Support: a Multi-Agent Approach. 540-541
• Haym Hirsh, Brian D. Davison: An Adaptive UNIX Command-Line Assistant. 542-543
• Sanya Mitaim, Bart Kosko: Neural Fuzzy Agents for Profile Learning and Object Matching. 544-545
• Peter Robinson: Autonomous Design and Execution of Process Controllers for Untended Scientific Instruments. 546-547